Bag-fastener.



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BAG PASTENER. APPLIOATION FILED DEG.11, 1912.

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ELMER G. SHAVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY V.

PIAGET, 0F MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

BA G-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 11, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELMER C. SHAVER, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, boroughof Bronx, in the county of New York and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in closures for bags, such as forexample tobacco bags, bags for containing ground coffee, and the like.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved closure forbags, which is simple in construction, strong and reliable, notexpensive, and which permits of opening or closing the bag by pullingcords in the mouth of the bag in opposite directions, thus greatlyfacilitating the opening and closing of the bags.

In the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference indicatelike parts in all the figures: Figure 1 is a side view of a bag providedwith one embodiment of my new and improved closure, the bag beingclosed. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic horizontal sectional view of the same,the bag being open.

The bag 1 is preferably made of woven fabric but may be made of leather,rubber cloth, or any other suitable material. At its open end, thematerial of which the bag is made is folded over, preferably on theinner side of the bag, and stitched as at 2 to form a hollow seam 3. Theseam is provided at opposite points with two holes 4 on the outside ofthe bag and with two holes 4 on the inside of the bag.

Two cords 5 and 6 are placed in the hollow seam, one strand of each cordbeing in the seam at each side of the bag. The two strands of the cord 5are passed through the outside holes 4 into the seam and at the oppositepoint of the bag pass out of the seam through the inside holes 4 and inlike manner the strands of the cord 6 pass into the seam through theoutside holes 4 and out of the seam through the inside holes 4 at theopposite point of the bag. It will thus be seen that the strands of thecord 5 pass through the outside holes 4 adjacent to the inside holes 4through which the strands of the cord 6 pass and similarly the strandsof the cord 6 pass through the outside holes 4 adjacent to the insideholes 4 through which the strands of the cord 5 pass.

The strands of the cord 5 are united outside of the seam at each end byknots 7 and 8, each a short distance from the ends of the strands so asto form stops and tabs or loops 9 and 10 beyond the knots. It will thusbe seen that the knot 8 in the cord 5 is on the inside of the bag mouthand the knot 7 in the cord 5 is at the outside of the bag mouth at apoint directly opposite. In a like manner the cord 6 has its strandsunited by knots 11 and 12 forming end tabs or loops 13 and 14.

The knot 11 of the cord 6 is on the inside of the bag mouth and the knot12 outside of the same. It will also be seen that where one cord has itsknot or stop and adjacent loop or tab on the outside of the bag mouth,the other cord has its knot or stop and adjacent tab or loop on theinside of the bag mouth, at the same side or part of the bag and so alsoat the point directly opposite, on the bag mouth.

Then the bag is closed the two tabs 10 and 13 project from the mouth ofthe closed bag and if these tabs are seized, the knots 8 and 11 being onthe inside of the mouth of the bag they will open the mouth of the bagwhen these tabs are moved in opposite directions. To close the bag it isonly necessary to grasp the tabs 9 and 14 of the two cords and move themfrom each other whereby the bag is closed.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is The combination with a bag, having a seam at itsmouth and at opposite points of said mouth having openings in the seamat the inside of the mouth and openings at the outside of the mouth, oftwo cords passed through said seam, each cord having two strands, one ofwhich passes through the seam at one side of the bag mouth and the otherthrough the seam at the opposite side of the bag month, said cordshaving their strands united at each end outside of the seam, andprovided with an extension at each end beyond the points where the twostrands are united outside of the seam, to form tabs, each of the cordshaving the point Where its strands are united; and the Signed at NewYork city, in the county 7 adjacent tab, at the outside of the bag ofNew York and State of New York this mouth at one side of the bag, andthe other 25 day of October A. D. 1912.

point of uniting the strands and the adja- ELMER C. SHAVER. 5 cent tabat the opposite side of the bag on fitnesses:

the inside of the bag mouth, substantially as HENRY V. PIAGET,

set forth. 7 OSCAR F. GUNz.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

